Past Events
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Oct 16PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Dana Landress, UW Dept Medical History and BioethicsHSLC
The Hunger Wars: Politics and Public Health in the 1960s U.S. South Learning Goals Critically engage with the recent political history of poverty-induced malnutrition Contextualize food sovereignty as a central tenet of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement Examine actors, institutions, laws, policies, that shaped food access across the 1960s Connect historic legislation and policies with …
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Oct 9PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Yoav Ben-Shlomo, University of BristolVirtual
How does life course epidemiology help us understand disease and aging? Life course epidemiology emerged in the 1990s as a response to the growing rift between differing theoretical models of disease etiology. As such it attempted to synthesize existing approaches within a multi-level framework that considered both macro and micro determinants to understand the importance …
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Oct 2PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Luke Funk, UW Department of SurgeryHSLC - Room 1244
Teaching Obesity Treatment Options to Adult Learners (TOTAL) – An ongoing multi-site behavioral RCT within the Veterans Health Administration Learning goals: Review obesity treatment options in the VA Discuss barriers to obesity care Discuss results of a pilot RCT of a behavioral intervention focused on obesity treatment Highlight a multi-site, adequately powered RCT of this …
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Sep 25PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Mary Ryan, Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences & Biostatistics and Medical InformaticsVirtual - Contact Tiffany (tdpence@wisc.edu) for Zoom link
Sequential sampling in prospective observational studies Many factors must be taken into account when designing an observational study. Unlike randomized or experimental studies, observational studies cannot mitigate the effects of confounding through randomization, and such factors should be incorporated into the study design as well as the study analysis. Unfortunately, there is often little data …
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Sep 18PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Sheryl Bedno, Chief Medical Officer, DHSHSLC (Room 1244)
Sheryl Bedno, MD, DrPH, CIP will be speaking about Challenges in Occupational and Environmental Health Surveillance: Lessons from the US Military Dr. Sheryl Bedno is the Chief Medical Officer and State Epidemiologist in the Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health, Wisconsin Department of Health Services as of late July 2023. She is a physician-leader with …
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Sep 11PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Menggang Yu, Professor, Biostatistics and Medical InformaticsHSLC 1244
Covariate-Balancing Weights for Causal Inference and Generalization Weighting, including inverse weighting by propensity score, is a very common strategy to account for confounding in causal inference. To construct robust and stable weights, covariate-balancing constraints are incorporated into an optimization framework in many recent works. This talk will start with a review for the idea of …
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May 10PHS 820 Graduate Program Student Seminar Featuring Erin Nelson-Bakkum
Join us for PHS 820 featuring Erin Nelson-Bakkum – Differences in CI utilization and distal outcomes by candidacy era. Please join remotely by Zoom with meeting ID 925 9118 4216 and password 068300 or this URL Disparities in Cochlear Implant Access and Utilization in Medicare Recipients Background: Cochlear implants are a highly successful neural prosthesis …
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May 3PHS Graduate Student Seminar Featuring Emma SvensonJoin us for PHS 820 featuring Emma Svenson – Experiences of maternal discrimination and their influence on healthcare professional students at UW. Please join remotely by Zoom with meeting ID 925 9118 4216 and password 068300 or this URL
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May 2PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Jesse Ehrenfeld, Medical College of WI
I am board certified in both anesthesiology and clinical informatics and trained at the Massachusetts General Hospital. I serve as a senior associate dean, tenured professor of anesthesiology and director of the “Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment” at the Medical College of Wisconsin. I am also a professor of anesthesiology and health policy at Vanderbilt University in …